Don't Forget Me

{chapter 11: just keep swimmin}

{Hayes POV}

I just got to my house to grab my swimsuit and some food cause I'm hungry. (I always am:) I walked into my house to see Nash watching a movie by himself. "Hey big turd." I said, as he turned around to look at me. "Oh hey little turd." He said.

"Where are you going?" Nash asked. "Roaring Springs with Sky, Ryan, and Peyton." I said grabbing my car keys off the counter. "Cool." He said continuing the movie. I walked into my room and put on my swim suit on and a plain white tee shirt. I grabbed my aviator sun glasses and put them on. I walked into the kitchen and grabbed an apple. Right before I left, Nash said, "Oh by the way someone called the house phone asking for you. I think he said his name was Nathan or something like that, but I wrote his number down so you could call him back. His number is on a magnet on the fridge."

"Kay, thanks bud." I said walking to the fridge and grabbing the piece of paper. I grabbed it and stuck it in my swim suit pocket. My eyes lingered towards a picture of Skylar and I on our first date. That was definitely one for the books. There was also a picture of Nash with a girl. She had curly brown hair and tan skin. She was pretty, almost too pretty for that little couch potato.

"Naaaash, who's your lil lady friend in this picture over here?" I asked Nash, teasing him. He was such a loser now a days, I'm so glad he found a girl who's interested in him. Ever since we got an apartment here in San Diego he just stays at home and watches movies all day.

"Oh, that's just Alana." He said way too quickly. "Ooh, who's Alana?" I said walking over to him and raising my eyebrows. "A friend. Umm she's casted in the movie that I'm in." He said nervously. "Well you guys are way too close to be just friends. How long have you been dating?" I asked him. He let his head drop back in defeat.

"2 months." He said. "I knew it!! Nashy Poo has a girlfriend!!" I yelled and jumped on the couch so he wouldn't hurt me, but he still managed to pull me down. "Shut up and go swimming with your girlfriend already." He said. He was all red. "NASH AND ALANA SITTING IN A TREE!! F-U-C-" I was cut off by Nash picking me up and legit throwing me out of the apartment. I was dying with laughter.

"Nash I need my keys!!" I said, as he threw them out. So there I was, sitting on my porch laughing my butt off and looking like an idiot. I got a hold of myself and grabbed my keys and walked out to my car where I saw Skylar sitting in the passenger seat and Peyton and Ryan in the back seats.

"Hey." I said, as I climbed into the drivers seat. I heard Peyton and Ryan watching a video in the back seat and laughing super hard. "Hey, what took you so long?" Skylar asked. "Nash said this guy named Nathan called me but I wasn't home so I went to go grab his number from the fridge and there was a picture of Nash and a girl so long story short, Nash has a girlfriend." I looked over at Skylar, who was silent. "What?" I asked her.

"Nothing." She said simply. "Okayyy, let's get going, it takes 20 minutes to get there, and I'm super hot." Peyton whined from the back. I started the car and I could hear Ryan say, "Yeah you are." Peyton laughed super loudly. I laughed and looked at Skylar again and her expression was the same as before. "Are you okay?" I asked her. "Yeah I'm fine, lets just go." I didn't believe her, but I didn't want to fight with her so I just drove.

We got to the water park like 20 minutes later after Peyton, Ryan, and Skylar serenaded me. What a lucky man I am. I got out of the car and ran to Skylar's side to open her door for her, but she locked it. She was in the car talking to Peyton and Ryan. What the heck is going on with her? I knocked on the window and she finally got out. Peyton and Ryan looked concerned but didn't say anything.

I looked at Skylar for a minute who was just looking down and grabbed her hand. "What's wrong, babe? You can talk to me." I said to her. She looked up for a second and hesitated, saying "It doesn't matter, let's just go have fun." And with that, I nodded and we walked into the water park, hours of fun ahead of us.

{Skylars POV}

I really want to tell Hayes about Nathan but I can't bring myself to tell him. I don't know why but I feel guilty. So I guess Nathan won't stop trying to find ways to contact Hayes, and I'm scared of what he will do to him. But I don't want to put Hayes in any danger. I can't say anything but I really want to tell him.

So now I just gotta get through this day with Hayes without letting anything slip out of my mouth. Great.

We set our stuff down at a table in the shade and I took off my flowery romper. My swimsuit was a black, pink, and white floral peplum top, and striped high waisted bottoms. Peyton's suit was cute too, it was a striped halter top and coral high waisted bottoms. Hayes took of his tee shirt and boy does that kid have abs.

"Sky, my eyes are up here." He said, joking. I laughed, saying "Whatever, Benjamin, let's go swimming." And we raced each other to the wave pool.

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"Come on Skylar, please do it? For me?" Hayes pleaded with me as I sat on a bench.

"No, I've told you a million times, I don't like drop off slides." I said, as I put some more sunscreen on my face. "I'll go with you, so whatever happens to you will happen to me too. Pleaseeeee?" He said, staring into my eyes with his bright blue ones. I couldn't say no to those eyes. I shook my head, "Fine, but if I die, your coming down with me." I said.

"Yay!! Let's go!!" Hayes said, jumping around like a little kid and grabbing my hand. "Okay, okay." I said, laughing at how excited he was. We ran to this water slide that was like a really steep skating rink thing, it went straight down and straight up afterwards. It looks terrifying. We stopped in front of it as someone went down, screaming.

I gave Hayes a nervous look and he hesitated, then said "It's so scary. Let's do it." Then we were walking up the stairs. And my heart was racing. "I'm gonna die." I kept saying. "At least you'll die in my arms." Hayes said. I laughed and shook my head. We got to the top, which was super high up. I swear I am gonna die. We grabbed a double tube and I sat in the back cause the lightest person goes in the back.

Thank goodness I'm not in the front, but I still might pee myself. "Skylar, are you ready for this? It's gonna be awesome!!" Hayes said, gripping my hand. "No I'm not ready but I guess we're doing it anyway?" I said. "Yup." He said. We sat at the edge and the life guard counted down from 5. When he got to 2, I started screaming and then we were going over the edge.

Let's just say I screamed the entire way down. And maybe a little bit afterwards too. "You squished my hand so hard!" Hayes said, laughing. "I'm never doing that again!" I said. "Admit it, that was fun." Hayes said. "Hmm, nah." I said, as we walked back to our table. "Yeah it was, you know it was." He insisted.

"Okay, yes I had fun."